Photos Piles of weapons after the war

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Post WW2 cleanup of weapons and armament:

Stacks of what appear to be German rifles after the war.
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Immense pile of mines
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The caption for this mentioned "4000 Japanese blades". No doubt some are quite valuable.
0000.m7JapBlades.webp


This is German gear piled up in Italy after the war.
0000.m8ItallyPostWar.webp


Captured Italian gear piled up in Sicily. And wouldn't I like to rummage through those Carcanos!
0000.m10SicilyCarcano.webp


Piles of "Scrap metal"
0000.m11Scrap.webp


The following images don't fit in with WW2, but may still be of interest.

Fairly recent image of confiscated weapons being crushed. I'd sure like to sort through these, too!
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Piles of artillery casings left from Somme barrages.
0000.m2Somme.webp



Pile of Argentine rifles in the Falklands - looks like mostly FALs.
0000.m3Falklands.webp


Mostly SKS in this one. I'm not sure when or where it was taken.
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Mostly SKS in this one. I'm not sure when or where it was taken.
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Indian Army Officers examine a pile of rifles taken from surrendered Pakistani troops in the military action that separated East Pakistan from West Pakistan, and created the state of Bangladesh. 1971.
 

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